Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through Illinois by Bus. A man with a memory like Jim Farley's, easygoing Bill Boyle knows thousands of wardheelers by their first names. He saw to it that the boss shook the hands and slapped the backs of as many of them as possible. His biggest coup of the campaign: routing Truman by bus and car through five downstate Illinois counties that had not gone Democratic in 50 years. Truman carried them all, took the state...
...careful exceptions, nobody can own more than six acres or rent out more than three. Land reform halted Communism's appeal to Japanese farmers. As landowners they feel that they are small, separate, independent entrepreneurs. They dislike the mere thought of Russian collectives, which many of them saw as Soviet prisoners...
...Woman on the Hill. A few months ago, the Tory government of Prime Minister Sir Basil Brooke had little reason to count on such a triumph. Last December, when Eire passed the Republic of Ireland Act, which claimed jurisdiction over the Northern counties, Sir Basil saw a chance to bolster his own position by calling a general election. In the ordinary course of events, Northern Ireland would not have had a general election until next year. By rushing the election through on the issue of partition, Northern Ireland's position as a part of the United Kingdom would...
...bitterly resented such gerrymandering. "See that woman pushing her pram up the hill with two babies and bundles, and her pregnant?" asked a Londonderry Republican. "Those houses she's going to could have been put up down below on as level a piece of land as ever you saw, but it might have risked a Unionist majority, to put working-class Catholics in that district." He snorted. "So the poor woman has to climb the hill to save a Unionist vote...
...shape. I won't begin to look you over until next week." Among the 19 pitchers who turned out were Ira Godin, mainstay of last spring's mound staff, who pitched a two-hit victory over Yale; Barry Turner, number two starter last year; Ralph Hymans, who saw mostly relief action; and Landon Clay, star twirler on last year's jayvee nine...